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October 10, 2009

239 CDs

We’re moving! The wife has been talking about a bigger house for 3+ years now, so with the housing prices at rock bottom and interest rates really great (for buyers, at least) we finally got off our butts and bought a new home on the other side of Louisville.

This weekend is packing packing packing. As a full-time software developer telecommuter, I have accumulated oodles of random IT equipment over the years (hey, you never know when you’re going to need spare parts!). I was packing up my office today — including The Parts Closet. It was like a trip into the past. Here’s a fun partial list of things that I found in TPC:

A surprising number of Palm Products:

7 palm styluses

A full pack (minus 1) of palm m100 protector stickers

Palm m100

Palm Treo

Palm Clie

Palm 1MB RAM (yes, megabyte) upgrade

239 CDs (yes way!!):

Many Windows XP

Many Microsoft Works

Many Dell reinstall CDs

1 copy of Windows Millenium

4 AOL CDs (some as old as AOL 5.0)

Oodles of drivers and “you just bought some IT equipment, so we feel compelled to give you a CD with other random stuff on it” CDs